. >> ben smith? >> i was watching the geraldo show.>> you would have -- you would have made a great date. indiscretion. >> all of the risks all of your do colleagues still there? >> of course i want proof. we are not afforded that. situations being as they may. >> elvis is dead, too. >> i am very happy to he is dead. you know what? it's a tie score right now. the game has just started over. peas people are pissed. they are going to be coming for us. a lot of exposure strategy at that tactics a lot of stuff you are seeing conjecture could possibly get our people hurt and killed. people have to remember again as the american people it's operational security. we have to support our military by keeping our mouths shut celebrate. celebrate by all means. please. keep in mind it's a dangerous world. we are in a war. >> we are indeed in a war. >> coming up, reaction from pakistan to the violations of the sovereignty and the president gives credit where credit is due. communities are built by everyone doing their part. this year jpmorgan chase

. >> and ben smith? >> i was watching the geraldo show. >> geraldo: great taste. and your respond?> after all you have been through. >> of course, i want proof. we are not the afforded that. situations being as it may -- >> but no, i'm very happy that, you know, he is dead but you know what, it as tie score right now. the game has just started over. >> tell me more about that. >> and these people are pissed and they will be coming for us and a lot of exposure of strategy and tactics and the conjecture you are seeing in the media is -- could possibly get our own people hurt and killed and stuff like that and people have to remember are, again, we -- the american people it is operational security. we have to support our military by keeping our mouth shut and celebrate by all means, please, but keep in mind that it is a dangerous world. we are in a war. >> geraldo: we are, indeed, in a war. coming up, reaction from pakistan to the violation of its sovereignty, allegedly, and the president gives credit where credit is due. ♪ [ male announcer ] you plant. you mow. you grow. you dream. m

ben smith had a great piece in politico this week about incoming republican candidate tim pawlenty talkingg us back to the gold standard. when you compare that to what the president's doing, that's a good place for democrats to be. >> let me sum up one response i think you'll have which is the president has spent way too much money for very few jobs and turn you to the medicare question. and that is the democrats are keen on making paul ryan's medicare proposal, which is to turn -- to subsidize people's -- seniors health care and let them go out into the private market and by their own. the democrats are just determined to make that a campaign issue because it's such a killer with seniors. >> right. >> why isn't that a campaign issue? >> democrats, first of all, it's all about let's preserve that big government program that keep voting constituencies in our camp. with paul ryan, ill's about how do we get a better health care for the american people. clearly, the best source of health care insurance is the private sector. the economy, what paul ryan is saying, let's let everybody at all age

politico's ben smith actually was offered this collection of twitter messages by rebecca mansour for money. and he wouldn't pay. and tucker carlson said they didn't pay. but there was this great e-mail in which the guy, person, i should say, sorry, ben, it's going to take a lot more than a happy meal and a handshake to get me to betray someone's confidence. because just going to lunch wasn't good enough. i will betray someone's confidence if you send me a check. >> that's pretty bad. to ben's credit and the daily caller's, if they didn't pay, that's great. >> that's what happened with the botox story of the woman who said that she had given her child botox. it's a pretty good lesson. you shouldn't be paying for it. >> what i've concluded is there are no rules anymore, anything goes and unfortunately that's the world we live in. >>> and coming up in the second part of "reliable sources," the oprah era ends. we'll look at her phenomenal popularity and whether she can revive her struggling cable network. >>> plus, a very personal discussion with longtime "morning joe" producer chris lic

yes my name is ben no smith this is julian assange we're here to make a short presentation about the we can fix project. the first step in the for the state is to get information out about the real world. to him. i'm going. to give you the biggest. fear to be a good marketer. if i ever put any sources in danger he would hunt me down and kill. this is exactly one of the reasons why we left the country because it has become more about this whole james bond with than about the actual information. thank you. sol the big ball around the wold. may be. a cluster munitions. and inside the container you have many small bombs and you can have anywhere from dozens up to hundreds of there's a huge market right now for cattle area clearance because there are a lot of countries in the world that are contaminated by unexploded ordinance. and so you've got these companies and n.g.o.s that have basically sprung up that have an expertise to get rid of these weapons what they do is be go to these places they will hire local train the locals how to do the clerics they'll let the locals basically take ow

>> smith: ben tracy in joplin, thanks. a sad update now from our story from joplin on friday. you about deann hayward a mother of three last seen leaving to pick up pizza for her son's graduation party. after a week of searching, the family says it received a call from officials last night confirming her death. jim tressel, one of college football's most successful coaches, resigned today as head coach at ohio state university. in 2002, tressel led the buckeyes to their first national championship in 34 years, but his years there were clouded by scandal. recently the n.c.a.a. fined and suspended tressel for five games for turning a blind eye to rules violations which included players trading team collectibles for tattoos and cash. when we come back, american kids building a school in the himalayas. what brought them there is a story all in itself. in itself. ,,,, >> smith: never underestimate the power of teenagers, when they are motivated they can do just about anything. and michele miller found someone who is inspiring thousands of young achievers. in this rural village in n

>> smith: ben tracy in joplin tonight, thanks. nearly two years ago, air france flight 447 mysteriously crashed in the atlantic, killing 228 people. now with the flight recorders finally recovered from the ocean floor, we know more about what happened in the final harrowing moments of that rio to paris flight. here's nancy cordes. >> reporter: the plane's black boxes reveal that the air france pilots-- faced with conflicting speed readings-- didn't know whether to speed up or slow down. at 11:10 p.m., the airbus a-330 was heading into a powerful storm 700 miles off the coast of brazil when the autopilot disengaged and the plane began to roll to the right. the cockpit displays showed inconsistent speed readings, a sign that the external speed sensors, called pitot tubes, were malfunctioning or perhaps had iced over. >> a stall warning went off and he climbed briefly before pointing the nose down to pick up some speed. then he leveled out and began to climb a bit, perhaps not realizing he was still going too slow. that triggered a s

>> smith: ben tracy in joplin tonight. thank you. in politics, sarah palin has not said yet whether she will run for the republic presidential nomination, but on her web site today she announced she will be making a campaign-style bus tour along the east coast. it begins sunday in washington, which is where our political correspondent jan crawford is tonight. jan, whenever i see a politician on a bus, they are rarely commuting. what is she up to? >> reporter: well, harry, that is the question everyone is asking: is she running for president or just leading this national conversation with voters? now, either way, a lot of republicans i talked to today-- and i don't mean just here in washington, but in some of those key states like new hampshire and iowa and south carolina-- they think this bus tour is win- win. now, she says on her web site that the point of it is to restore the good and talk about the good in america. she says she's going to be talking about the principles that this country was founded on. even the bus has got the wo